Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

The idea of the brotherhood of men the oneness of existence and the divinity of the soul—all based upon spiritual experience—cannot bring any solace or comfort to life without the dicoveries of science and technology. [...] The Swami was not satisfied with the idea of mere tolertion; he wanted us to cultivate the positive spirit of acceptance and reverence so that we might unite ouselves with every religion praying in the mosque of the Muhammedans worshiping before the fire of the Zoroastrians and kneeling before the cross of the Christians. [...] In the East we often worship a ghost or a phantom in the name of the Spirit and in the West people often worship a corpse in the name of the body. [...] An instance of the apathy felt by the first rulers is the rejection of Charles Grant's proposal by the Court of Directors of the Company in 1787. [...] It was directed by the Parliament in 1813 while granting some loan to the Copany that a lakh of rupees should yearly be set apart for educational purposes `applied to the revival and improvment of literature and to the encouragment of the learned natives of India and for the introduction and promotion of a knowledge of the sciences'.